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Faber (WILLIAM FREDERIC an American)

WILLIAM FREDERIC, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop, born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1860. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1880 and from the Albany Theological Seminary in 1883. In the same year he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry, and until 1892 was pastor of the First Church of Westfield, N. Y. In the latter year he entered the Protestant Episcopal Church and served as rector FABIAN SOCIETY in churches in New York and Michigan.

He was consecrated coadjutor-bishop of the Diocese of Montana in 1914, and became bishop in 1916. He wrote "The Church for the Times" (1891); "Henry VIII. and the Reformation in Relation to the Church of England" (1897); and was a frequent contributor to magazines on religious subjects.